Big Books of 2026

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Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset MaughamAnother Country by James BaldwinThe Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria RilkeRilke on Love and Other Difficulties by Rainer Maria RilkeThe Captain's Verses by Pablo Neruda
Exquisite Pain
16 books — 1 voter
The Denial of Death by Ernest BeckerImmortality by Stephen CaveThe Ernest Becker Reader by Daniel LiechtyThe Structure of Evil by Ernest BeckerEscape from Evil by Ernest Becker
Terror Management Theory
20 books — 4 voters

Minima Moralia by Theodor W. AdornoNegative Dialectics by Theodor W. AdornoCivilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund FreudPostmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism by Fredric JamesonOne-Dimensional Man by Herbert Marcuse
Critical Theory
83 books — 36 voters
Dialectic of Enlightenment by Max HorkheimerGender Trouble by Judith ButlerPostmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism by Fredric JamesonHistory and Class Consciousness by György LukácsImagined Communities by Benedict Anderson
Mapping Critical Theory
107 books — 41 voters

1984 by George OrwellDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. DickBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyFlowers for Algernon by Daniel KeyesFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Philosophical Science Fiction
426 books — 395 voters
Infinite Jest by David Foster WallaceSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonCatch-22 by Joseph HellerThe Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
Postmodern Genius
519 books — 585 voters

If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoThe Princess Bride by William Goldman
Metafiction
442 books — 578 voters
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessFight Club by Chuck Palahniuk1984 by George OrwellThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Best Experimental Books Ever
1,107 books — 1,719 voters

The Stranger by Albert Camus1984 by George OrwellSiddhartha by Hermann HesseThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Best Philosophical Literature
1,167 books — 2,725 voters
The New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderBetween the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi CoatesThe Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Books White People Need to Read
1,306 books — 1,560 voters

Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy KidderDiary of a Freedom Writer by Darrius GarrettThree Cups of Tea by Greg MortensonForces for Good by Leslie R. CrutchfieldThe Freedom Writers Diary by Erin Gruwell
Nonprofit callings and careers
39 books — 41 voters
The Lean Startup by Eric RiesMove to Millions by Darnyelle Jervey HarmonThe 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy FerrissHow to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale CarnegieZero to One by Peter Thiel
Entrepreneurs' Book Club Reading List
402 books — 561 voters


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